Little Brown Brother Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AB CD CE FG HI HJ KL MN DO PQ RS HK TU VW X| I've always wanted to play the part | A |
| of that puckish pubescent Filipino boy | B |
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| in those John Wayne Pacific War movies | C |
| Pepe Jose or Juanito would be smiling | D |
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| bare chested and eager to please | C |
| for most of the steamy jungle scenes | E |
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| I'd be the one who would cross | F |
| the Japanese lines and ask for tanks | G |
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| air support or more men I'd miraculously | H |
| make it back to the town where John Wayne | I |
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| is holding his position against the enemy | H |
| with his Thompson machine gun As a reward | J |
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| he'd rub that big white hand on my head | K |
| and he'd promise to let me clean | L |
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| his Tommy gun by the end of the night But | M |
| then a Betty Grable look a like love | N |
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| interest would divert him by sobbing | D |
| into his shoulder saying how awfully scared | O |
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| she is about what the Japs would do | P |
| to her if she were captured In one swift | Q |
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| motion John Wayne would sweep her off | R |
| her feet to calm her fears inside his private quarters | S |
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| Because of my Hollywood ability | H |
| to be anywhere I'd be under the bed | K |
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| watching the woman roll down her stockings | T |
| as my American hero unbuckles his belt | U |
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| I'd feel the bottom of the bed bounce off my chest | V |
| as small arms fire explodes outside the walls | W |
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| Submitted by Samuel Hamada | X |
Nick Carbo
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